roman
Malay
/ˈro.man/
noun
Definitions
- obsolete novel, story written in long prose.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish roman (novel) derived from French roman (novel, epic, a medieval romance) derived from Old French romanz (common language) derived from Latin romanicē, rōmānicus (Roman, roman).
Origin
Latin
rōmānicus
Gloss
Roman, roman
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Romanic English
- romantic English
- *romanĭce Latin
- romanicē Latin
- romanus Latin
- rōmānice Latin
- rōmānicus Latin
- rōmānicē Latin
- Bildungsroman German
- Roman German
- romanico Italian
- romanzo Italian
- Arthurroman Dutch, Flemish
- Karelroman Dutch, Flemish
- briefroman Dutch, Flemish
- doktersroman Dutch, Flemish
- graalroman Dutch, Flemish
- leugenroman Dutch, Flemish
- reisroman Dutch, Flemish
- ridderroman Dutch, Flemish
- roman Dutch, Flemish
- romanschrijver Dutch, Flemish
- schelmenroman Dutch, Flemish
- sleutelroman Dutch, Flemish
- stationsroman Dutch, Flemish
- stuiversroman Dutch, Flemish
- vormingsroman Dutch, Flemish
- radioroman French
- roman French
- romancier French
- romaniser French
- рома́н Russian
- роман Russian
- romance Spanish, Castilian
- románico Spanish, Castilian
- roman Norwegian Bokmål
- romanse Norwegian Bokmål
- ロマン Japanese
- roman Norwegian Nynorsk
- romanse Norwegian Nynorsk
- romauns Middle English
- romanz Old French
- romano Esperanto
- roman Serbo-Croatian
- roman Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- رمان Persian
- roman Indonesian
- roman Turkish
- ראָמאַן Yiddish
- រ៉ូម៉ង់ Central Khmer
- romans Old Occitan